What about this Scenario:
Jeff is a student in Miss Erney’s class who lacks the ability to get along with his peers. Jeff’s inappropriate behavior includes taking toys and food from his classmates’ hands. On the playground, students try to avoid Jeff so that he does not take their things. When Miss Erney talked with Jeff about his inappropriate behavior, he refused to take responsibility and blamed his classmates for the problems. Recently, Jeff has withdrawn from the class, and he frequently can be found walking alone on the playground and after school. Miss Erney wants to help Jeff become more socially mature.
1. Discuss the use of sociometric techniques to assess social skills and related problems. How can Miss Erney use information from a sociogram to help Jeff? By using sociometric techniques, Miss Erney can receive information on his social skills and other related issues. Peer nominations include asking students to nominate peers according to nonbehavioral criteria, such as attitude. Peer ratings allows all students in a classroom to rate one another on a Likert-type scale according to the nonbehavioral criteria. Peer assessment has students nominate or rate peers on several behavioral characteristics. Miss Erney can use a sociogram to identify how many times Jeff is chosen from the sociometric techniques completed by his classmates. She can use these numbers to identify if Jeff is an isolate and better choose partners for him to work with during group activities. She will also be able to identify what social patterns within the classroom should be changed and which ones should be encouraged. Taking this information, Miss Erney can make changes to include and improve Jeff's social skills.
2. Discuss the use of social skills training to reduce Jeff’s inappropriate social behaviors. Include the use of direct instruction to increase Jeff’s interpersonal social skills. Social skills training can be used in Jeff's situation to improve his knowledge and ability of how to communicate and get along with his classmates. Using direct instruction will allow Jeff to learn step by step ways to improve these skills he is currently struggling with. For example, Miss Erney can take Jeff and one other classmate, and have them practice having a conversation with one another. Miss Erney can prompt Jeff to ask appropriate questions, as well as, make nice comments to his friends. She can also explain the importance of caring about our friends and saying nice, respectful things. Miss Erney could also have the boys demonstrate a conflict with one another, such as Jeff taking food away from the classmate. Miss Erney can then demonstrate and explain how this hurts Jeff's friends feelings and how it negatively affects his friendships.
3. Describe three social development activities that may help Jeff with his social problems. Predict some of the possible outcomes of each activity. 1. Pair a withdrawn student with a competent, socially mature peer for various activities. They must cooperate with one another on completing a task.: This would more than likely be difficult at first, until Jeff realized he enjoyed working with a partner and realizing that being nice and respectful, allows him to develop friendships with his classmates. 2. Use modeling techniques to teach various social skills.: This will allows Jeff to see how positive friendships are and how he can interact with classmates to build good relationships. 3. When a student is frequently aggressive toward a peer, ignore the aggressive student and pay attention to the victim.: At first, Jeff will continue behavior until he sees he is not getting any attention from interacting with his friends in negative ways. Over time, I think Jeff will begin to lower the frequency of his aggression towards his peers.
4. Instructional games promote positive peer relations and enable the teacher to work on specific social behaviors. Create a game that Miss Erney can use to help promote Jeff’s social development.
Socialization Charades Materials: list of situations {both positive and negative}, emotion cards, short-skits
Directions: The teacher will read off a situation to one or more students at a time, while the rest of the group prepares to guess the emotion, outcome of situation, or purpose of the skit. This will allow the class to work together, as well as, identify positive ways to treat others, recognize emotions, and how to handle emotions. All students are included and no one is left out or isolated.
Sample Card: Two students are on the playground playing, when they notice one of their classmates in the corner crying. What should the two students do?
5. Discuss the use of life-space interviewing and reality therapy as two interventions to manage Jeff’s behavior and promote his emotional development Life-space interviewing: This technique would allow Jeff to independently share his emotions and why he acts out in various situations. The other student involved will also get to voice his/her opinion and how Jeff's actions made them feel. Allowing Jeff to hear how his actions effect others, will allow him to think more about his behavior in future situations. The teacher will prompt the students with questions and lead them to problem-solve the situation amongst themselves. This allows Jeff to learn how to solve situations in a positive manner, rather than isolating himself from others. Reality Therapy: This method is very similar to life-space interviewing and is used to lead Jeff to identify his behaviors and come to a positive solution. This method allows Jeff to share reasons of why he acts in certain ways, as well as, reach ideas that will allow him to act differently if the situation arises next time. This will allow Jeff to recognize that he cannot blame his classmates for his negative behavior in all
Jeff is a student in Miss Erney’s class who lacks the ability to get along with his peers. Jeff’s inappropriate behavior includes taking toys and food from his classmates’ hands. On the playground, students try to avoid Jeff so that he does not take their things. When Miss Erney talked with Jeff about his inappropriate behavior, he refused to take responsibility and blamed his classmates for the problems. Recently, Jeff has withdrawn from the class, and he frequently can be found walking alone on the playground and after school. Miss Erney wants to help Jeff become more socially mature.
1. Discuss the use of sociometric techniques to assess social skills and related problems. How can Miss Erney use information from a sociogram to help Jeff? By using sociometric techniques, Miss Erney can receive information on his social skills and other related issues. Peer nominations include asking students to nominate peers according to nonbehavioral criteria, such as attitude. Peer ratings allows all students in a classroom to rate one another on a Likert-type scale according to the nonbehavioral criteria. Peer assessment has students nominate or rate peers on several behavioral characteristics. Miss Erney can use a sociogram to identify how many times Jeff is chosen from the sociometric techniques completed by his classmates. She can use these numbers to identify if Jeff is an isolate and better choose partners for him to work with during group activities. She will also be able to identify what social patterns within the classroom should be changed and which ones should be encouraged. Taking this information, Miss Erney can make changes to include and improve Jeff's social skills.
2. Discuss the use of social skills training to reduce Jeff’s inappropriate social behaviors. Include the use of direct instruction to increase Jeff’s interpersonal social skills. Social skills training can be used in Jeff's situation to improve his knowledge and ability of how to communicate and get along with his classmates. Using direct instruction will allow Jeff to learn step by step ways to improve these skills he is currently struggling with. For example, Miss Erney can take Jeff and one other classmate, and have them practice having a conversation with one another. Miss Erney can prompt Jeff to ask appropriate questions, as well as, make nice comments to his friends. She can also explain the importance of caring about our friends and saying nice, respectful things. Miss Erney could also have the boys demonstrate a conflict with one another, such as Jeff taking food away from the classmate. Miss Erney can then demonstrate and explain how this hurts Jeff's friends feelings and how it negatively affects his friendships.
3. Describe three social development activities that may help Jeff with his social problems. Predict some of the possible outcomes of each activity.
1. Pair a withdrawn student with a competent, socially mature peer for various activities. They must cooperate with one another on completing a task.: This would more than likely be difficult at first, until Jeff realized he enjoyed working with a partner and realizing that being nice and respectful, allows him to develop friendships with his classmates.
2. Use modeling techniques to teach various social skills.: This will allows Jeff to see how positive friendships are and how he can interact with classmates to build good relationships.
3. When a student is frequently aggressive toward a peer, ignore the aggressive student and pay attention to the victim.: At first, Jeff will continue behavior until he sees he is not getting any attention from interacting with his friends in negative ways. Over time, I think Jeff will begin to lower the frequency of his aggression towards his peers.
4. Instructional games promote positive peer relations and enable the teacher to work on specific social behaviors. Create a game that Miss Erney can use to help promote Jeff’s social development.
Socialization Charades
Materials: list of situations {both positive and negative}, emotion cards, short-skits
Directions: The teacher will read off a situation to one or more students at a time, while the rest of the group prepares to guess the emotion, outcome of situation, or purpose of the skit. This will allow the class to work together, as well as, identify positive ways to treat others, recognize emotions, and how to handle emotions. All students are included and no one is left out or isolated.
Sample Card: Two students are on the playground playing, when they notice one of their classmates in the corner crying. What should the two students do?
5. Discuss the use of life-space interviewing and reality therapy as two interventions to manage Jeff’s behavior and promote his emotional development
Life-space interviewing: This technique would allow Jeff to independently share his emotions and why he acts out in various situations. The other student involved will also get to voice his/her opinion and how Jeff's actions made them feel. Allowing Jeff to hear how his actions effect others, will allow him to think more about his behavior in future situations. The teacher will prompt the students with questions and lead them to problem-solve the situation amongst themselves. This allows Jeff to learn how to solve situations in a positive manner, rather than isolating himself from others.
Reality Therapy: This method is very similar to life-space interviewing and is used to lead Jeff to identify his behaviors and come to a positive solution. This method allows Jeff to share reasons of why he acts in certain ways, as well as, reach ideas that will allow him to act differently if the situation arises next time. This will allow Jeff to recognize that he cannot blame his classmates for his negative behavior in all